Welcome to the North American Association of State and
Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) Standards Initiative (NSI) Verification Program

The objective of the NSI Verification Program is to encourage and
facilitate the adoption and implementation of NSI Best Practices and
Technical Standards in lottery organizations. Verification provides
formal recognition of a lottery organization's conformance to an
industry Best Practice or Technical Standard.

The NSI is a collaborative development effort, with participation
from the lotteries, gaming vendors, and retail associations in the
development of standards, best practices, and validation programs for
the lottery industry. The Open Group is working with NASPL to provide
the collaborative development infrastructure, to help manage the
development processes for the NSI, and to operate the
Verification Program for Lotteries and the
Certification Program for lottery-industry vendors.

The NSI Verification Program is a voluntary program and is open to
any lottery organization that has consistently implemented one or more NSI Best
Practices or Technical Standards and meets the documented Conformance
Requirements for those Best Practices or Technical Standards.
A lottery organization may be verified in multiple areas, provided that
it meets the applicable set of Conformance Requirements for each area.

The significant highlights of the verification process are outlined below

The NSI Verification Program is administered on behalf of the NSI by
its designated Verification Authority,
The Open Group.

Operation of the NSI Verification Program is governed by a
documented set of policies that define what can be verified, what it
means to be verified, and the process for achieving and maintaining
verification.

Verification is valid for a specified period of time, dependent upon
the type of business practice or technology. A verified entity is subject
to re-verification on a periodic basis.

For a list of lotteries that have successfully completed the Verification
Program see the register.

Announcement

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation is the first lottery to achieve
verification in the two areas of Quality Assurance (QA) Best Practices
applicable to lotteries: Requirements Definition and Acceptance Testing.

The NSI QA Best Practices are a set of three best practices
addressing Quality Assurance of Product Development in the Lottery Industry.
The purpose of this set of best practices is to provide a documented
set of quality assurance processes and procedures that will allow lotteries
and vendors to follow an approved and repeatable method when defining,
developing, and accepting software products for installation at the lottery.
Together they provide a set of processes and procedures that address the
quality assurance requirements throughout the hardware and/or software
production cycle from requirements specification through design,
implementation and testing, to acceptance and deployment.

Once verified and if used consistently with all projects, the
best practices will become standard methodology and will eliminate
re-inventing quality and project management processes with each new
product, thus reducing risk, and saving time, resources and money for
both lotteries and vendors.

For additional information please contact Andy White at
awhite@nasplhq.org or at (440)466-5630

About The North American Association
of State and Provincial Lotteries

The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL)
was founded in 1971. Evolving from an informal exchange of information among three
pioneering lottery directors, the organization has now grown into an
active association of state and provincial lotteries representing 47 lottery
organizations throughout North America.

The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral
consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information
Flow ™ that will enable access to integrated information
within and between enterprises based on open standards
and global interoperability. The Open Group works with
customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies.
Its role is to capture, understand and address current
and emerging requirements, establish policies and share
best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop
consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and
open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set
of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia;
and to operate the industry’s premier certification
service.

Further information on The Open Group can be found
at http://www.opengroup.org.